A backache after a long day at the computer might be the result of tired muscles or stiff joints – but it could also be triggered by a body part you might not have heard about: The fascia.
Experts, both scientists and therapists, have been gathering regularly to discuss fascia’s potential. The Sixth International Fascia Congress will meet in September in Montreal, Canada. This is “densified” fascia, and can account for different cases of referred or shooting pain, which is often diagnosed as a “pinched nerve”. Nerves can be pinched by many means, but densified fascia as a cause is often overlooked.
We are largely made up of water – in muscle and fascia, it makes up as much as 75 per cent. If we don’t drink enough, those necessary fluid ratios are compromised. Water flushes waste out, and another factor that affects the smooth workings of fascia is a cellular waste.“When it is working normally, fascia is full of water and moves freely as we move,” says Amanda Oswald at the UK’s Pain Care Clinic.
Focusing treatment only where symptoms are felt misses the cause. And identifying causes in turn balances behaviours that may contribute to pain – the way we sit to work, for example. Intermittent fasting can help reduce inflammation in connective tissue and help unglue sticky fascia. Eating more alkaline foods – most fruits and vegetables, soybeans and tofu, and some nuts, seeds and legumes – is good for our fascia, which objects to an environment that is too acidic because it affects the fascia’s ability to retain water, Roxburgh says.
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